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# ME TOO! or Re: Out-of-mem panic on dumping

- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:00:12 PDT
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    At 04:04 AM 6/14/96 PDT, m.sanderson@student.anu.edu.au (Matthew Sanderson)
    wrote:
    >I'm getting a panic report from the log file that looks depressingly
    >similar to the others posted here recently...
    >
    >Jun 14 15:39:54: CHECKPOINTING: Writing 4168 MOO verb programs...
    >Jun 14 15:40:26: *** PANIC (in child): memory allocation (size 20480) failed!
    >
    >...recursive panic, then aborts.
    >
    >I spose I am 'jumping on the bandwagon' here :) But this is a reproducible
    >error that surely is not normal, yet has been reported by many people on
    >this list recently.

    You are jumping on the bandwagon sho' nuff.  Unfortunately, when malloc's
    start failing it means there is no more room on your machine left for
    programs to run, and when the checkpointing process tries to get more
    memory, voil'a, panic.
    Of course it's reproducable, just use up all the memory on your machine.

    And this is exactly the kind of message I was talking about in my 'jumping
    on the bandwagon' post.  There is no description of what you are doing in
    your database that could cause the MOO process to grow to the point that all
    the memory is used up, assuming that all the memory on the machine is used
    up because of the MOO.  There is no description of the size of the database
    "normally", nor how much it has grown.  You have not told us if you are
    using FUP or regular expressions.  You have done nothing except say that you
    have a problem.  Perhaps my experience is telling me something wrong, but
    how the hell are we susposed to track down your/the problem without any
    information about it?

    Andy.

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